operation timeout

I'm using ssh to connect to work, and doing port forwarding to get my email and other services that work offers. I forward my http connections to a web proxy at work in order to access internal web pages, and at my ssh shell login I often get this error message: channel 10: open failed: connect failed: Operation timed out

The channel number changes each time. The effect this has is that it takes a long time to download a web page from work, and I can see that for most of that time no communication is being sent to or from me to the web server (or proxy).

I am currently on dialup, but I also saw this problem while I had broadband internet.

I'm running openssh 3.5 on a Gentoo Linux box (i386). I'm connecting to a solaris 2.5.1 server. Not sure what ssh it's running.

If anyone has seen this problem and could help me fix it I'd appreciate it. This problem slows down an already slow dialup connection.

Thanks. Received on Fri Dec 20 11:57:09 2002